Month: August 2026

Books received July 2026

From Midas to Cyrus and other stories: papers on Iron Age Anatolia in honour of Geoffrey and Françoise Summers

Catherine M. Draycott, Scott Branting, Joseph W. Lehner, Yasemın Özarslan  / British Institute at Ankara, 2023

Reviewed by Jana Mokrišová, 

Military households of Roman auxiliary commanders in western Europe and north Africa: Latin inscriptions, Vindolanda letters, and praetorium archaeology

Claire Millington  / BAR Publishing, 2024

Reviewed by Thomas Heide, 

Timaeus in paradise: metaphors and beauty from Plato to Dante and beyond

Piero Boitani  / Princeton University Press, 2025

Reviewed by David Marsh, 

Delicati and delicia in the Roman empire: a study of epigraphic and literary sources

Valeria La Monaca  / BAR Publishing, 2025

Reviewed by Ulrike Roth, 

Retrospective columns: Ionic capitals and perceptions of the past in Greek architecture

Samuel Holzman  / Princeton University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Max Peers, 

Combattre les dieux: le théomaque chez Nonnos de Panopolis

Halima Benchikh-Lehocine  / UGA Éditions, 2025

Reviewed by Laura Miguélez-Cavero, 

The kingdom of Pylos: warrior-princes of Mycenaean Greece

Sharon R. Stocker, Claire L. Lyons, Jack L. Davis, Evangelia Militsi-Kechagia  / J. Paul Getty Museum, 2025

Reviewed by Vassilis Petrakis, 

Coins of the Ptolemaic empire, part 2: Ptolemy V through Cleopatra VII

Catharine C. Lorber  / American Numismatic Society, 2025

Reviewed by Robyn L. Le Blanc, 

Following nature’s lead: ancient ways of living in a dying world

M.D. Usher  / Princeton University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Joel Alden Schlosser, 

Un empire, plusieurs langues. Aspects du plurilinguisme dans le monde romain

Bernard Bortolussi, Étienne Wolff  / Ausonius Éditions, 2025

Reviewed by María José Estarán Tolosa, 

The body and the senses in Greek tragedy

Afroditi Angelopoulou  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Orestis Karatzoglou, 

Iasos. Una polis nella Caria costiera in età arcaica

Marina Albertocchi, Fede Berti  / Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2025

Reviewed by Jana Mokrišová, 

Children of Mars: the origins of Rome’s empire

Jeremy Armstrong  / Oxford University Press, 2025

Reviewed by Connor Beattie,